I want to cry big real tears at a book please!

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Just that. Can be proper literature or supermarket chick lit. But I want to need tissues.

A few which come to mind are Marley and Me (I absolutely broke my heart over that book and I won't mention the state I was in walking out of the cinema after watching the movie), The Bridges Of Madison County and I've read three by Mitch Albom which all left me sobbing - Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven and For One More Day. The last few pages of To Kill A Mockingbird always get me too.

oh yes whatsername after watching Marley and me you could ring my top out and my eyes were so swollen I couldn't see!!! FFS Jennifer Anaston was in it I was expecting a comedy.
i tend to cry at random stories. it's stupid things that set me off.

This is the only book that made me cry:

www.amazon.com/The-Art-Racing-Rain-Novel/dp/0061537969

I heard the Owl call my Name. I first read this (and cried) as a teenager. Forty years later I have just reread it - and it still makes me cry. Beautifully written.

Jojo Moyes "the girl you left behind" set simultaneously during the German occupation of France in WW1 and in the 2000's. I cried my eyes out! Beautiful book.

Just finished "After You" (sequel to "Me Before You) and quite frankly sobbed for ages. Also "A Man called Ove" had me in floods, thought also very funny. Brilliant book.

Not sure if its already been mentioned but Wuthering Heights.

Forget every film version you've ever seen. Read the book.

YY to Never Let Me Go, His Dark Materials and Black Beauty!

Also recommend Kate Atkinson - Life After Life did me in, ditto Behind The Scenes At The Museum and most recently When Will There Be Good News?

I got pissed off at The Road. Plot was so ridiculous.

Boy21 is stomach wrenching in parts.

Shock of the Fall put me into bits.

If you want a movie that will reduce you to dribbles, try Me, Earl and the Dying Girl not that Fault in our Stars crap

William Boys -:any human heart. I was in floods,

Jennifer by Paul Gallico. I read it when I was about 11 or 12 and parts of it still make me weepy

And Never Let me Go

And The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams

Watershed Down.

Read it over 20 years ago but still remember the feeling of trying not to sob on the tube!

Watershed = watership

Anybody Out There? By Marian Keynes.

ditherydora god yes, I howled at Any Human Heart.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr, I read this when I was about 11/12 and it was my first experience of the Holocaust and the brutality faced by targeted groups in WWII.

It is semi-autobiographical and is taken from a child's perspective. As an adult rereading it I cried because you can sense the innocence from the child's perspective amid the atrocities around her.

The horse whisperer- it's brilliant and very sad!
(dont watch the film though because its nothing like the book and is a huge let down)

I've actually just looked at this book on Amazon and it appears to have made it into the essential modern classics list.

It is fantastic budd, i have read it several times and still cry.

It also has a fantastic twist to it and even if your not keen on horses this book is still well worth the read.

Vernacular -glad it wasn't just me.

Should have said Boyd of course. And Jennie by Paul Gallico

The Storyteller's Daughter by Jodi Picoult.

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mystery

Not read the whole thread but the kite runner. I bawled